Unless you’re hiding out, with no connection to the Internet you should not have missed this story.

Chris Clark of Maryland sold his domain name “pizza.com” for a whopping $2.6 million — which is almost 10,000 times the price he originally paid for it in 1994 — a measly $20 (ironically, that’s about the price of a medium pizza nowadays).

Clark had continued paying the annual domain registration fees for “pizza.com” up until January this year, when he saw domain name ‘vodka.com’ going for a phenomenal $3 million.

“It’s crazy, it’s just crazy,” a euphoric Clark is reported to have remarked after the online auction. “Pizza.com” was originally bought by Clark in the hope of getting a contract with a pizza firm for a consultancy he used to run. And Clark regrets not having bought more such domain names when he could have…

Maybe my domain (and a pretty good hack at that) – http://handba.gs (think http://www.blo.gs) could net me a nice 7 figure sum? I do not promote the domain at all, and it’s sitting at a Google PR1 rank. Cool! Maybe if I actually did some work on it, it could gain page rank much quicker.

I am actively working on selling this domain name – know anyone who wants the name – only selling for 7-figures. The luxury handbag market is pegged at $4.8 billion in the US alone! Worldwide the luxury goods market is worth about $87.5 billion – taking the US $4.8 billion into account we’re not greedy and a tiny even minute percentage of that would keep us happy! Or you may be interested in leasing a sub-domain (or the entire domain) — e-mail me and we can talk.